Coca Cola Pie

Learn how to make this deeply chocolate pie with Coca Cola as the surprise ingredient!

There is absolutely nothing like a cold Coca Cola out of a glass bottle on a hot summer’s day. Nothing. As much as we love our “coke”, Coca Cola Cake is a classic that has been a favorite for generations.

So when I wrote my third cookbook I wanted to create another classic bound dessert using our favorite “cold drink”. The result of my efforts is this deeply chocolate decadent Coca Cola Pie and it’s so good, my friends at Silver Dollar City actually served it in their parks last summer!

To make this you’ll need: A graham cracker crust (you can also use a traditional crust, baked and cooled), cocoa powder, brown sugar, vanilla, semi sweet chocolate chips, heavy cream, butter, corn starch and COCA COLA! You don’t have to use the glass bottled coke but it sure is pretty for pictures!

Sidenote: Have y’all ever been to the World Of Coca Cola in Atlanta? That is a FUN place to go. We’ve been several times when the kids were younger and Atlanta traffic wasn’t nearly as crazy as it is these days. Highly recommend it – the museum, not the traffic. Time to make a pie!

To begin: Combine all ingredients except vanilla in a sauce pot and then place over medium heat. Stir constantly with a whisk until thickened, 5-10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour into graham cracker crust. Cover and place in the refrigerator until thoroughly chilled.

Look at that pretty coca-cola fudge pie filling! Now we need to add our layer of ganache. This will add a little extra indulgence as well as create a nice protective layer on top of our filling.

Ganache is one of the easiest things you could make nowadays. All you need is heavy cream and semi sweet chocolate chips. The exact amounts are below in the printable recipe card. Place the cream and chips in a microwave safe bowl and microwave this at 45 second intervals, stirring after each, until fully melted and blended. This won’t take too long.

Pour over pie and spread to cover. Cover this and refrigerate until chilled.

It will look like this. The ganache looks hard but it is still easy to cut, kind of fudge like.

To serve, I like to top each with a dollop of whipped cream and a cherry! Enjoy this soon to be iconic pie!

Combine all ingredients except vanilla in a sauce pot and then place over medium heat. Stir constantly with a whisk until thickened, 5-10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour into graham cracker crust or baked and cooled traditional crust. Cover and place in the refrigerator until thoroughly chilled.

For ganache, chocolate chips and cream in microwave bowl. Place bowl in microwave for 45 second intervals, stirring after each, until chips are melted and mixture is creamy and easy to blend. Stir together until thoroughly blended and creamy. Allow ganache to cool for five to ten minutes before spreading on top of refrigerated pie.

If you’d like to decorate this pie for serving, top each piece with a dollop of whipped cream and a red cherry. Store in refrigerator.

Comments

hey Carole! Boy, I’m not used to this new way of communicating in partial sentences! I read your comment and was trying to figure out what you were talking about and curiosity got the better of me so I went and looked over the whole post to try to find it. At first I thought you were answering a question someone else had left but I didn’t see a question in the comments. Finally, I found my error in the recipe card where I had typed “minutes” instead of “seconds”. You sure made me work for that one! I corrected it.

Nothing has changed. They are still there but you likely logged out of your account. I use cookies on my computer so that it keeps me logged in. If you don’t have cookies enabled or if you logged out of your computer entirely, you’ll just need to log back in and it’s all there.

Nothing like a recipe for something this yummy that I’m the only one who can eat it!! Hubs has diabetes and my dad’s heart goes crazy with caffeine (no more CICU, thanks!). Can this be frozen so I can eat just one piece at a time…otherwise I just know a piece would be going down for breakfast, lunch and dinner and be gone in 2 days!!

Hi Christy,
I love all your recipes & sometimes I need to print them. Recently I have noticed they don’t print anymore. When I select your print recipe button it goes to the print screen & then automatically goes back to previous screen. When I select my print button I get a blank screen. This has been happening to me since you had to redo your server. Any suggestions? I’m dying to try the Coca Cola Pie.

Hey Patsy! First of all, I’m sorry you’re having problems. This is generally something that is an issue on ios devices, most commonly ipads. In other cases it has to do with pop ups being blocked but if folks go to a computer it is usually fixed. I would love it if you could give me more details so I can look into it further. Specifically, what device (or devices) are you using when you try to print? What internet browser do you use?
Thank you!

I made the Coke Pie both ways– with a dough pie crust and with the graham cracker crust. I was confused because the recipe ingredients list says you need to bake and cool the crust, then the directions say “pour into graham cracker crust”. I hadn’t read the comments or I would have known that either crust was good. After using both crusts with the recipe and gaining weight, I preferred the G. C. Crust.
Thanks for your recipe! I love to cook and love new recipes to try.

By the way, I live in West Monroe, LA. Coke and Delta airlines used to have Monroe as their home offices.

Christy, Do you have a recipe for Spoon Candy? Jello used to have one but the one I’m looking for is made with syrup or molasses. A friend used to make it but didn’t have a recipe. She was a great cook who did a lot of “a spoonful of this and that or a handful of something. I do that myself so I can understand how she makes it without measuring. She’s a Cajun from S. Louisiana and she learned from her mom.

So amazing! Was looking for something different to make for a fun July 4th dessert, and this was it! Made it with the graham cracker crust, was quick and easy. I used leftover heavy whipping cream to make the whipped topping, and then topped with thinly sliced strawberries and blueberries, just to be patriotic 🙂
Fun & delicious! Thanks for so many delicious recipes!